The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16
Pith and Point.


strawberries $3.50 cup in New York.
DANIEL BANNER of Madison, Mich, lost
apet squirrel over two years ago. The other
day it returned and resumed its old rea-
lions
The toboggan business is only tempo
rary mania. Every slide in the country
will be abandoned before July 1.-Detrou
Free Press.
A New YORK weekly paper called Com
ment, after struggling existence of few
months, has been obliged to succumb--prob-
ably for the reason that it was unnecessary.
A CANADIAN v isitor in New York paid
sly for pound of coal the other day. He
thought he was buying counterfeit money,
and the swinders put coal in his valise in
stead of bank bills
TEN languages-Engli German, Nor
wegian Swedish, French, Bohemian, Finn,
Polish, Italian and Chnese-are spoken in
Minnesota. The governors message was
printed in each of these languages.
GO Is he young man of brains?" inquired
an old gentleman respecting a swell youth.
Well, really" replied his daughter, az
have no opportunity of judging. 1 have
never met him anywhere except in So
ciety. y Washington critic.
THE new comet recently discovered at
Melbourne, Australia, is said to be moving
north. Midwinter is not the most propitious
time for such change of climate, but if the
comet comes we must try and make it COM
fortable.-lndidndp Journdl
A PHARMACIST of Lancaster, Pa, has Just
had patented an ingenious device in the
way OF an attachment to drug bottles con-
.a,,' IN POISON. Drugglsts VINO nave seen ~
say III 1,,ilg presqr.Pons by ene use Oh tlls
Miss MATILDA JOHNSON has just died in
London, 116 years old. Eighty-nine years
ago her intended husband died suddenly
and she made will giving her entire for
tune to the military hospital and directing
that Love killed her should be engraved
on her tombstone.
NV friend who paid for the dinner asked
few questions OF the chef as he was pre-
sentlng MN with the 500 bill, and among
other things asked him what was the most
diihcult TASK encountered by COOK. The
che1 replied, after little bit OF study
Sare ct IL to cook Ze rare roz BIT so Eat ct
" well don. '-Neo YORK Poper
THE Emperor of China must be a tremen-
dous gourmand if correspondent of Les
DebatS is to be believed. According to that
writer the g Son of Heaven y insists on
having bears paws, antelopes' tails, ducks
tongues, torpedo-eeis eggs, Gamers hump,
monkeys Ups, carps tails ana marrow bones
served on his table every day in the year.
NEWSPAPER men in Germany have to be
very careful about punctuation The Uofer
Tdqebldtt a short time ago said that deco
ration had been conferred upon Count Won
point instead of a period appeared at the
end of the sentence; and for this the author
tues seized the whole issue and instituted
suit against the editor Tor atrocious libel.
A CERTAIN little fellow was asked the
other day why he so loved a great New
foundland dog and the little fellow an
swered, very promptly: because Hero is
the best Christian l know. He's never
mean" This boy had the same feeling
about his four-footed friends as had that
reverend preacher in Milton who used to
pray for imam and the more worthy
beast "-Boston Post.
A LATE minister to China few wears ago,
at one of his earliest dinners at Pekin,
heartily relished certain DISH and desir-
ing to ascertain of what it was composed,
pointed to his emptied plate and said in
quiringly, to the pig-tailed attendant,
"Quack, quack, q,lack?" The Celestial
shook his head and replied, Bow-wow,
bow-wow, bow-wow!" initiating, as well as
he could, to the horror of the minister, the
bark of a dog.-New York World.
sKuNK fonpd its ,vav into the senate
| and ~ Tho oan;toI Of woSb;nnton raoantIy
and IRON, trad.S linn.r;nn IN H. ntrn"onhayye,
about the forum If Would annaar that = bigb
carnival was hold nv a dalagation Of stunlss
The odor has been so strong that thorough
! fuInigation will be necessary 1t has been
almost death to the senators of refined nos
trils, and when the fumigating process was
made the only persons present were John
Sherman, Father Bassett and two pages.
Iva recent issne Tho Ey;zobo+b C;t,, N ~
! Econon,ist contained Tho foIIowiy9oV nara
granb. :" The ganial uintar at,nSsnihare
nervades all snace and our neonia ora hos
| rpitahle to str,nners W. ro,,Id tha+ oil
who wheeze and sneeze north Of Mason and
| Dixon,s line could ba,,a b.en hara for tba
last few davs" And then inst nndar II the
following item If news annears. :, FRIDAY
night tLe All instant twn colorad oirIs
aged tweIve and aiohtaen vaars resnectiyaiv
We're frozen to deatb in Durant,s Eact ,;
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ated on tbe Wisnnnsin Inc The daaf taI,-
ern'teanar retired 20 Tho nortb and of lie
har-room On seaina Tho ofiners ond tben in in,
vited him 70 read 6i 1,'v worront Tbo sbariff
did % ha u,os h;ddan hnt tha dot n,an sod
ha S;d nor npdars+anS az h;,o Tb a" sio eff
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tha tn,. u iaanor;s ann e. ti,o sban;G
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tha Soof 80 osraso5 H. aS 80 tio
dnormant Ho sthap o r,ie that ho rns
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ALL the newly elected United States
senators are often spoken OF IN publlc
places Senator-elect Quay OF pennsylvania
! Is one OF the much talked about one story